Contributors
- Contributors
Mary Besemeres is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University. She is the author of Translating One’s Self: Language and Selfhood in Cross-Cultural Autobiography (Peter Lang, 2002), and coeditor, with Anna Wierzbicka, of Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures (U of Queensland P, 2007). With Maureen Perkins, she was founding coeditor of the journal Life Writing.
Jane Darcy is an honorary lecturer in the English Department at University College London. Her book Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640–1816 was published by Palgrave in 2013. She is currently coediting an essay collection, Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Rethinking the Page and the Stage (under contract with Palgrave).
John Eakin’s most recent essays are “Autobiography as Cosmogram” (Story-worlds) and “Self and Self-Representation Online and Off” (Frame, Utrecht, Netherlands). He also contributed an “Afterword” to a new edition of Classic American Autobiographies (Signet Classics). His last book, Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative (Cornell UP, 2008), is being translated into Portuguese. Eakin is Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University.
Richard Freadman is Emeritus Professor of English and retired Director of the Unit for Studies in Biography and Autobiography at La Trobe University. His studies of life writing include Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will, (U of Chicago P, 2001), This Crazy Thing a Life: Australian Jewish Autobiography (U of Western Australia P, 2007), and two volumes of memoir: Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself (Bystander, 2003), and Stepladder to Hindsight. (Hybrid, 2016). He currently works in the area of life writing and health care.
Ingrid Horrocks has a PhD from Princeton University, and is a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Massey University, Wellington. She is the author of two poetry collections, a travel memoir, Travelling with Augusta, 1835 and 1999 (Victoria UP, 2003), and articles on eighteenth and nineteenth century British literary culture published in journals such as Studies in the Novel, ELH, Studies in Travel Writing, and Women’s Writing. She is particularly interested in historical conceptions of mobility and in nonfiction forms, and has most recently written the first chapter in A History of New Zealand Literature [End Page 718] (forthcoming, Cambridge UP), and coedited a collection of personal essays on contemporary imaginings of place (forthcoming, Victoria UP).
Craig Howes is Director of the Center for Biographical Research of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, and coeditor of Biography.
Cynthia Huff, an English Studies Professor at Illinois State University, has recently published on animalographies—texts allegedly by and about non-human animals—as well as on diaries, Victorian literature and culture, and women’s life writing. Her publications include British Women’s Diaries (AMS, 1985), Women’s Life Writing and Imagined Communities (Routledge, 2005), and Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women’s Diaries, coedited with Suzanne Bunkers (U of Massachusetts, 1996).
Kimberly Katz is Associate Professor of Middle East History at Towson University in Maryland. She is the author of Jordanian Jerusalem: Holy Places and National Spaces (UP of Florida, 2005) and A Young Palestinian’s Diary: The Life of Sami ‘Amr (U of Texas P, 2009), and has published articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Journal of North African Studies, among other journals.
Bethany Ober Mannon completed her PhD in English and Women’s Studies at Penn State University. Her research focuses on gender, social activism, and personal narrative in twentieth and twenty-first century American culture.
Candida Rifkind is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. She specializes in graphic life narratives, Canadian literatures, and vernacular modernisms. She is currently writing a book on contemporary graphic biography, and has coedited, with Linda Warley, the forthcoming collection Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives. Her essay on graphic biographies of Robert Oppenheimer appeared in volume 38.1 of Biography.
Sidonie Smith is Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities at the University of Michigan.
Phyllis E. Wachter, compiler of Biography’s annual bibliography for thirty years, continues to teach and conduct life writing research.
Kate J. Waites is Professor of English...
